Email

april.adams@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Obstetrics & Gynecology
Maternal Fetal Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX Unite

Assistant Professor

Molecular and Human Genetics
Prenatal Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Assistant Professor

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Reproductive and Prenatal Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Assistant Program Director

Maternal Fetal Medicine/Maternal Fetal Medicine & Medical Genetics and Genomics Fellowships
Baylor College of Medicine

Maternal Medical Director, Quality and Safety

Harris Health System, Ben Taub Hospital

Assistant Director of Education

Reproductive and Prenatal Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine

Addresses

1504 TAUB LOOP (Clinic)

Houston

Education

MD from Wayne State University

Detroit

Fellowship at MedStar Washington Hospital Center

District of Columbia

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Fellowship at NIH-NHGRI

Bethesda

Medical Genetics

Residency at University of Minnesota

Minneapolis

Obstetrics and Gynecology

MS from Tulane University

New Orleans

BS from Purdue University

West Lafayette

Certifications

American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics

Clinical Genetics and Genomics

American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Obstetrics and Gynecology

American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Selected Publications

• Adams AD, Hoffmann V, Koehly L, Guedj F, Bianchi DW. "Novel insights from fetal and placental phenotyping in 3 mouse models of Down syndrome." Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021; Pubmed PMID: 33766516
• Adams AD, Stover S, Rac MW "Omphalocele-What should we tell the prospective parents?." Prenat Diagn. 2021; Pubmed PMID: 33540475
• Adams AD, Guedj F, Bianchi DW "Placental development and function in trisomy 21 and mouse models of Down syndrome: Clues for studying mechanisms underlying atypical development.." Placenta. 2020; Pubmed PMID: 31683073
• April D Adams 1 , Kendra Schaa 2 , Rachael T Overcash 3 "Differences in prenatal aneuploidy screening among African-American women with hemoglobin S variants." J Perinatol. 2018; Pubmed PMID: 9961762

Memberships

International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis

Board Member

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Fellow

American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics

Fellow

Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine

Member